The sign a planet occupies depends on the date, with planets passing through all the signs in anything from 28 days (the Moon), to over 240 years (Pluto). Planets in signs and houses operate on very different timescales. However, this article is not concerned with house meanings, but with how we define which house a planet occupies: how we calculate the house cusps. Our understanding of the area of life corresponding to each house has changed over time, so the traditional descriptions found in Lilly, or Houlding's recent book differ in some respects from descriptions based on 20th century ideas. On the one hand, they denote areas of life, and on the other, they determine the strength of a planet (planets in angular houses: 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th, are stronger than those in succedent or cadent houses). The houses of a chart serve two functions. There are many different ways to define the location of the house cusps, and so to determine in which house a planet is located. There is general agreement amongst astrologers about the signs and what they signify, and how to define in which sign a planet is located, except possibly for the dispute between using tropical or sidereal signs.
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